CHAPTER III.

DIFFERENCES OF SEX.

(Continued.)

Women keep life stable.--Men keep it from stagnation.--Influence of each a corrective upon the other.--The law of mental and physical resemblance of elderly married persons.--Why woman possesses the stronger moral nature.--How husband and children are benefited.--The savage tribes manifest the dominant male characteristics.--Civilized nations take upon them the best characteristics of the feminine type.--The best characteristics of each sex finds modified expression in the other.--The beneficial effects which God secures by the union of an active with a passive sexual nature in marriage.--The well-being of both bettered.--Mutual intelligence begets harmony, while ignorance produces discord and misery.--The reproductive organs differentiated in man and in woman.--The same organs modified, differently placed, and assigned a different office, 41